{"id":8205,"date":"2018-04-16T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3016156"},"modified":"2018-04-16T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:00:54","slug":"el-paso-deputies-confiscate-13m-worth-of-marijuana-guns-in-first-three-months-of-black-market-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/el-paso-deputies-confiscate-13m-worth-of-marijuana-guns-in-first-three-months-of-black-market-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso deputies confiscate $13M worth of marijuana, guns in first three months of black market crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/el-paso-deputies-confiscate-13m-worth-of-marijuana-guns-in-first-three-months-of-black-market-crackdown\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_3007361\" class=\"wp-caption alignright size-article_inline_third\"><img class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/el-paso-deputies-confiscate-13m-worth-of-marijuana-guns-in-first-three-months-of-black-market-crackdown\" alt=\"large bags of marijuana\" width=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 110 pounds of marijuana and approximately 75 plants that were ready for harvest were seized April 4, 2018, from a home in the 16500 block of Stage Stop Road in Peyton, Colo. Photo provided by the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>El Paso County sheriff\u2019s deputies in the first t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2018\/01\/18\/el-paso-county-marijuana-raid\/97026\/\">hree months of 2018<\/a> confiscated about $12 million worth of illegally grown marijuana plants, another $1 million in processed marijuana, made 16 arrests and seized more than a dozen guns under a state law designed to stop the diversion of legal pot to the drug\u2019s black market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/06\/08\/colorado-marijuana-laws-home-grows-plant-counts-law-enforcement\/81109\/\">The actions come under House Bills 17-1220 and 17-1221<\/a>, signed in June last year to clamp down on illegal pot as well as rein in regulations that allowed for a \u201cgrey market\u201d to prosper. The bills capped home-grows at 12 plants, down from 99, and allocated $6 million of pot tax revenue to black-market enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Between Jan. 1 and March 31, deputies served 30 search warrants and conducted another 30 \u201cknock and talks,\u201d as well as confiscated a marijuana trimming machine worth about $10,000, in its crack-down, the department said Friday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso County sheriff&#8217;s deputies in the first three months of 2018 confiscated about $12 million worth of illegally grown marijuana plants, another $1 million in processed marijuana, made 16 arrests and seized more than a dozen guns under a state law designed to stop the diversion of legal pot to the drug&#8217;s black market, the agency announced Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,7263,6813,77,6814,6933,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,7264,6818,2655,6819,6934,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}